Valve's Steam Controller Final Design Here - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 05 March 2015 / 5,294 Views
Valve has changed their Steam Controller several times over the course of development. The controller has now been finalized. You can see the final version of it below.
The controller still has the two touch pads from the first version of the controller. The left touch pad has a plus shaped marking that looks similar to a d-pad. The right touch pad is blank and will work like a laptop mousepad.
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So... PC players should still opt for the DualShock 4.
That "D-pad" there looks weird. That controller just looks weird.
Yeahh.... because i love to use touch instead of analog and digital controls, its so.much more "natural" use a flat panel to play. Humph.....
That is... Weird.
...I need it.
I'm glad the put an actual analog stick on it
Hope it works better than it looks
Will the D-Pad bit work like a D-Pad? ...... This controller...
The right tough pad is probably slightly better ergonomically placed than the DS4 touch pad. But basically the Steam controller has compromised on actually useful aspects of the modern game controller in order to have 2 touch pads that. Personally I think the number of games that will make effective use of a 2 touch pad UI is limited, and highly unlikely to be a significantly better UI than an analog stick and touchpad. Therefor I think the DS4 is the better designed controller making use of a single touch pad. Though I also recognise that the placement of the DS4 touchpad is such that it will never be used as the main UI for the right hand; so developers will only make use of it in a fairly gimmicky way.
